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D-Wave Systems, the controversial poster child of commercial quantum computing, has raised $30 million in venture capital from Fidelity Canada Fund, Goldman Sachs, Business Development Bank of Canada and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The company, which is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, has now raised $160 million since it was founded in 1999.

Although debate over the quantum properties of D-Wave’s system remains an ongoing affair (see, for example, these two studies — here and here — published in the past few months), researchers do seem generally excited about the types of problems D-Wave’s computer might be able to solve given the right algorithms.